How to use "made" in a sentence

It always comes after I've made some kind of mistake

It made me feel lost and alone

I pull out the knife and look at the deep hole I've made in my right arm

Aron had given it to her in a hurry and made a mistake.

'Brion made a mistake

What about the Robbers Roost canyons in the south? The only roads down there were made of rocks and sand

Then, as the others made their way back to their vehicles, I stayed behind for a few minutes

The two men wore black hats and shoes made from seal skin

A white light coming from the ship made everything easy to see

We found bananas and coconuts, and we made a small camping area for the day

The Nautilus made a hole in the bottom of the enemy ship with its sharp nose

The baby made a strange little sound and she looked at it again.

The pig made another, louder sound

The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts,

Three or four other people were in the group with her, and they made a good sound

Weasel made a bad mistake - and then the game finished, and we were the losers.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."

Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations, and had never recanted them

It is scarcely questioned that this provision was intended by those who made it for the reclaiming of what we call fugitive slaves; and the intention of the lawgiver is the law

Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? One party to a contract may violate it - break it, so to speak; but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?

At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal

To avoid misconstruction of what I have said, I depart from my purpose not to speak of particular amendments so far as to say that, holding such a provision to now be implied Constitutional law, I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable.

If I read the temper of our people correctly, we now realize, as we have never realized before, our interdependence on each other; that we cannot merely take, but we must give as well; that if we are to go forward, we must move as a trained and loyal army willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline, because without such discipline no progress can be made, no leadership becomes effective.

They have made me the present instrument of their wishes

Meltham and I made sure that Slinkton was dead

Before the breeze blew out the match he made out a figure in a dress: it was a woman.

Why had the Ripper burnt them? When Abbeline discovered only one small piece of candle in the room, he thought that the killer had made a fire with the clothes because he needed more light to do his terrible work.

Valjean, who did not remember having made such a promise, was silent.

'I used to work in Paris, but my husband died and I lost my job.' She could not tell Mme Thenardier the truth, which was that she had been made pregnant by a young man who had then abandoned her

The couple dressed Cosette in rags and gave her very little food, which they made her eat from a wooden bowl under the table

They made her get up before dawn every day and do all the dirty jobs around the house, while Eponine and Azelma wore pretty clothes and played with dolls

Misery had made her ugly and only her beautiful blue eyes remained.

With the money he made, M

Months of poverty and misery had made her ill, and she soon became so weak that she was unable to leave her bed.

You made one small mistake, that's all

Everybody stood to one side to let him pass as he made his way towards the door

But, as the church bells of the city struck eleven o'clock, something made him look back

Gillenormand made Pontmercy an offer which he could not refuse.

Life was hard for him, but he never forgot the promise he had made his father: that he would find Thenardier, the man who had saved his father's life, and help him in any way he could.

Marius shut his book, opened it again and made an effort to read

When he felt that they were near him, he looked up and saw that the girl was looking steadily at him with a soft, thoughtful gaze that made him tremble from head to foot.

Marius failed to understand the trick, and made the mistake of doing so

Not wishing to give evidence against Thenardier in court, Marius made immediate arrangements to leave his room

I suppose you've got some sort of career, now? Perhaps you've made a fortune

Although this made him very unpopular, he thought that his opponents would be too weak to prevent him from doing what he wanted

You remember the promise I made you

He stood up and was going to leave the room when something made him stop

She had left it on the cupboard and the mirror, reflecting the backwards handwriting, made the message clearly visible.

But it made no difference

Half an hour later he left the house, dressed in his National Guard uniform, with a loaded gun and a pocket full of gunpowder, and made his way towards the market district of Paris.

During the night, the thirty-seven remaining rebels strengthened the main barricade and made more bullets

Cosette and Marius made a handsome couple on their wedding day

Marius, meanwhile, was grateful for finally having the chance to help Thenardier, and therefore to keep the promise he had made to his father

They're made of silver, but to me they are pure gold

This good woman had a little red riding hood made for her

One day her mother made some cakes and said to her, "Go, my dear, and see how your grandmother is doing, because she has been very ill

It looks expensive, made from black leather

They say this is premeditated murder because for half an hour Miss Lee looked for Mr Dawson; they also say she made her intention clear on three different occasions

Greg made the call to the hotel, and they drove to the cabin in the Yoho national park

I saw the tracks from your truck, and I told the police, but I made sure I found the cabin first

He remembers hitting that idiot of a boy Harris because he made a mistake in the geometry class

And do you know what choice Jimmy Lane made?

How he made the money to enter, I don't know

Exhausted from a long day at work and made passive by the slow journey home.

Best of all, he made her laugh

She'd made her own garden on the roof of their apartment, and she was always up there

It was made of clear plastic, and inside, there was some kind of small dark red fruit

It had taken years for Gran to make her garden because it was so difficult to find soil or plants, but she had made some soil with rotten vegetables and fruit, and slowly found bits and pieces here and there

"Gran! Are you OK?" Sala put an arm around her, and made her sit down on the little bench that looked over the city.

Everything they ate everything they used - it was all grown or made within the city's limits

After thirty minutes, Apat was still jumping up and down happily, but Sala and Cham took a break and went to the cafe, where a drinks machine made special mixtures of juice and energy liquids.

It all made too much sense

His words made Sala feel ashamed

Studying at home helped with overcrowding, used less energy, and made teaching easier: well, that's what the government said.

Sala and Cham each went into a little room and Sala put on her suit, made a neat pile of her clothes, and carried them out to Zee

"Cham, I've made a decision," she said, in a rush.

Was that it? Decision made? No more discussion? Cham hadn't even looked at her

"Wage payments will be made to your family

Sala felt like running away, but something made her keep going

Because it made them scratch."

The only thing that made the time pass more quickly was her family's dream of the world outside

They gave her a big welcome, and Dani made green tea

Sala waited in the pod as they made the final checks, bright lights blinding her from above.

Suddenly, I made up my mind

'You certainly made the most of your time

'I'm afraid you have made a mistake,' I said

'Let's hope you have made him forget all about it

Talking about Manderley always made Maxim happy again.

The bushes made an arch over our heads so that we had to bend down

A small stone wall across the bay made it into a small harbour

'But I've made you unhappy,' I replied

But, every hour of the day, the past made a wall between us.

Beatrice's questions had made me feel tired too.

I made sketches of some of the costumes, but I did not like any of them

'Then I suggest that you have your costume made in London, Madam

The next day I made a sketch of the picture

The secret made me feel excited and important.

She's had the dress made in London.'

Manderley had been made into a place of light and beauty, just for me.

The wig and the tightly fitting dress made me almost beautiful.

My eyes looked larger and the curls made a soft cloud round my head

The fact that I loved him made no difference

'How dare you speak to me like that? How dare you? You made me wear that dress last night

The thick fog made me forget my unhappiness

But she made Manderley the place of beauty it is today

'I made some holes in the wooden planks with a metal spike

'Then you must say you made a mistake about the other body

He asked me if I had made a mistake about the other body.'

It all made a good story

Who made those holes in the planks? Rocks didn't do it

'Then whoever took the boat out that night also made those holes and opened the sea-cocks.'

'I think you've made a mistake,' he said

Going to and from the showroom, the crowd had to pass all the craps tables and blackjack tables and roulette wheels and glittering ranks of slot machines, and that was where the profit was made

The bed was properly made, and several science-fiction-movie action figures were posed on the deep headboard

As soon as she made that decision, most of her nervous energy dissipated

And the obvious reference that those two words made to the bus accident in which he had perished?

"We made the damn thing work!"

But you and me, we made it into a hit."

The Pyramid had been built at a cost in excess of four hundred million dollars, and the owners had made certain that every last dime showed

They made pleasant small talk for the next fifteen minutes, and none of it had to do with Magyck! Tina was aware that they were trying to take her mind off the show, and she appreciated their effort.

He made no great show of being more than ordinarily interested in her, but the attraction she held for him was evident in his eyes

Less than ten minutes later, when the curtains opened again, the mirrors had been taken away, and the stage had been transformed into an ice rink; the second production number was done on skates against a winter backdrop so real that it made Elliot shiver.

He made her feel comfortable, yet at the same time, he intrigued her

an infinity of new opportunities made available to her because of this first smashing success..

Her fear made her angry with herself, and at last, she twisted the switch.

Michael led the way, gently pushing and elbowing through the holiday crowd, and Tina followed quickly in his wake, before the path that he made could close up again.

In time Michael had made it clear to her that, he hadn't actually ever loved the real Christina

Standing before her in the sunshine, his white shirt shimmering with squiggles of reflected light that bounced off the parked cars, he favored her with that self-satisfied, superior smile that made her feel as cold as this winter day ought to have been.

She walked back through the shopping arcade, rode the escalator up to the casino, and made her way through the noisy crowd to the front doors

Then she realized it wasn't only fear that made her quiver

She remembered the complaint that Angela had made earlier

Now that I've made up my mind to do it, I'm anxious to get it over with."

Smith, and other artists who made their homes in the western United States and who usually took their subject matter from either the old or the new West.

Some of our clients made smart moves and were carried right to the top by the explosive growth of the gaming industry and the Vegas real-estate market, and we just sort of shot up there along with them, hanging on to their coattails."

He made a mistake blending the salad dressing and had to begin again from scratch

At the start of the evening, the undercurrent of sexual tension made her nervous

He'd had other women in this bed during the past two years, and a few had stayed the night, but not one of those other lovers had made him feel content merely by the fact of her presence, as Tina did

On hot summer days, these barren, sandy slopes seemed godforsaken, and they would not be made lush and green for another ten years at least

But after she had made up her mind to let him read such stuff, she never thereafter even glanced at his purchases.

Vince held the pistol in his right hand and made a fist with his left

The big man had been overconfident, certain that his six-inch advantage in height and his extra eighty pounds of muscle made him unbeatable

And there wasn't a shirt made that could be buttoned easily around his thick, muscular neck

The cheeseburgers were made from juicy ground sirloin

It made my blood run cold

The taste of his lips and his warmth made her inexpressibly happy.

If he made a clean hit here, in the crowded casino, he would be assured of a promotion.

He compared it once more with the numbers on the electronic board, as if he were praying that he had made a mistake the first time.

Every ship was created with remarkable care and craftsmanship, and many were in uniquely shaped bottles that made their construction all the more difficult and admirable.

His ships, sealed in their glass worlds, relaxed him; he liked to spend time with them when he had a problem to work out or when he was on edge, for they made him feel serene, and that security allowed his mind to function at peak performance.

Harry Kennebeck had come from a dirt-poor family and, by his own estimation at least, made quite a lot of himself

"It's the way God made us

She said, "I was scared." And Danny said, "I made the holes in the walls smaller

I made sure he couldn't reach you, couldn't hurt you."

Abruptly her hand swung across the map, then back, then described a series of circles; the pen made meaningless scrawls on the paper

Elliot had suggested a change in the color of ink, so they would be able to tell the difference between the meaningless scribbles that were already on the map and any new marks that might be made.

As Elliot started to open his door, Tina saw something that made her grab his arm

He crashed into a desk, sending a pile of white and pink papers onto the floor, and then he fell on top of the mess that he had made.

She couldn't pinpoint what else about his eyes made him so different from any eyes she had ever seen, but as she met Danny's gaze, a shiver passed through her, and she felt a profound and terrible pity for him.

He's had a unique disease, a man-made disease created in the laboratory

No effort had been made to keep him from chafing.

"It made the politicians look good

They call the stuff 'Wuhan-400' because it was developed at their RDNA labs outside of the city of Wuhan, and it was the four-hundredth viable strain of man-made microorganisms created at that research center.

A decontamination crew moves in swiftly to clean up whatever mess you've made in the lab

Then he made his way to the road that serves the wildlife research center

When they were reluctant, he made up a story about a friend being stranded in the mountains with a broken leg

He huddled in his yellow blanket on the bed, and the memory made him shiver

The ghostly, slightly luminous winter landscape made George Alexander think of graveyards

Each time that he personally killed someone, he felt as if he were establishing another link to the world beyond this one; and he hoped, once he had made enough of those linkages, that he would be rewarded with a vision from the other side

Could this spot on Danny's brain have anything to do with the boy's psychic power? Were his latent psychic abilities brought to the surface as a direct result of the man-made virus with which he had been repeatedly infected? Crazy - but it didn't seem any more unlikely than that he had fallen victim to Project Pandora in the first place

"But after everything you said to Zachariah about this place being run by megalomaniacs, and after you've made it so clear you don't agree with everything that goes on here, why do you want to stay?"

Danny opened the high-security elevator and made the cab rise once they were in it

Considering the fearsome number of meetings I had to sit through, my per-hour wage penciled out at less than I would have made if I had taken a part-time job at McDonald's.

He made a lot of money there

The sound of a telephone ringing has always made me uneasy

The camera was pointing downwards, and I made an effort to look.

I had caught it, but Mama made me let it go

I had thought about going to see the commissaire, but knowing that he would then start questioning Henri made me hesitate

What, then, could have made him put his head under that hammer? There were only two possible explanations

I ran upstairs, threw Helene's envelope onto my desk and made another careful search of the room

A few days later, Andre had a new problem which made him fussy and bad-tempered for several weeks

He then opened the door of a telephone booth he had bought, and which he had made into his transmitter

I already knew that the fly Andre wanted was the one which Henri had caught and which I made him release.

And then I said, 'Henri caught a fly this morning, but I made him release it

I made all the servants join in the search

But then I kissed him and made him understand what I wanted

'It made me feel powerful

It was arranged very simply, but perfectly, and I wondered what had made Mrs Lestrange come to St Mary Mead

Colonel Protheroe would hear about it - and things would be made much worse for her.

'I think you have made the right decision,' I said.

'Well, I shall never forget his face when I met him outside my gate, or the way he said, "Oh, you'll see Protheroe all right!" That should have made me suspect what had just happened.' Haydock stared at me

'Once I had made the decision to tell you, I wanted to do it as soon as possible

She heard he had confessed, so made up a story

All this trouble made me forget.'

'It shows that call was made deliberately to get you out of the house

'But it wasn't Mr Redding who made the call

That's two strange telephone calls in one day, and I bet they were made by the same person.'

'So why was the first call not made from his cottage?' I asked.

Now you see why the call was made from there.'

But you made us both see how wrong it would be.'

Of course, I don't know if he had made any actual arrangements, but if he had...'

'That awful old Miss Marple has made a mistake

'Miss Marple may have made a mistake.'

'He made sure of that.'

It upset all my ideas and made me think he was not guilty - when up to then I had been sure that he was.'

It had made me think about the past romance between Lawrence and Griselda.

'It was the wrong sort of stone for my garden! And that made me think.'

Dear Griselda made that call

The coincidence was that the call was made at exactly the same time as the pretend shot from the wood

But across the great emptiness of space, more intelligent minds than ours looked at this Earth with jealous eyes, and slowly and surely made their plans against us

An enormous hole had been made and the Earth had been thrown violently in every direction, forming piles that could be seen two kilometres away.

He remained standing on one side of the pit that the Thing had made for itself, staring at its strange appearance and thinking that there might be some intelligent design in its shape

That quieted him a little, and when he saw Henderson, the London journalist, in his garden, he shouted over the fence and made himself understood.

'New attempts have been made to signal, but without success,' was how the evening papers later described it

If I had not made a promise to the pub owner, she would, I think, have asked me to stay in Leatherhead that night

He made me find all the food and drink that we could carry, and we filled our pockets

That night he made up his mind to visit me, in order to see the Things before they were killed

When he saw them, the curate made a frightened noise and began running, but I knew it was no good running from a Martian and I crawled into some bushes by the side of the road

And then the Martian closest to us raised his tube and fired it towards the guns, with a loud bang that made the ground shake

And where it met with water, or even mist or wet grass, a chemical action took place and it turned into a powder that sank slowly and made room for more.

The government, already falling apart, made one last effort

My brother had some friends in Chelmsford, and this perhaps made him take the road that ran to the east

The younger lady sat beside him and made the horse move.

A great cloud of dust, white under the strong sun, made everything within five metres of the ground grey and unclear

The Martian was thrown back by the violence of the explosion, and in another moment the burning wreckage, still moving forwards, had broken the Martian like something made of wood

The cylinder had gone right through it and made a large hole in the ground, much larger than the pit I had looked into in Woking

I had seen the Martians themselves once before, but only for a short time, and then the sight had almost made me sick

The arrival of a second fighting-machine made us move back out of the kitchen into the hall, because we were afraid that from that height the Martian might see us through the hole

He made a sudden movement backwards and for a moment I shared his panic

The Martians had made such an impression on me that at first I did not think I could escape

I heard a dog, and that familiar sound made me listen

This made me feel a lot better, and the noise of the pump did not bring a tentacle in through the opening.

Slowly I made the opening larger and pushed myself through it

The view of blackened trees and empty ruined buildings made me very unhappy

I spent that night in the pub that stands on the top of Putney Hill, sleeping in a made bed for the first time since I had run away to Leatherhead

'I was buried near the pit the Martians made around their cylinder

At first I thought a house had fallen across the road, but when I climbed up on the ruins I saw, with a shock, this great machine lying, with its tentacles bent and twisted, among the ruins that it had made

Great piles of earth had formed around a pit at the top of the hill - the final and largest one the Martians had made - and from behind these piles thin smoke rose against the sky

It has taken away our confidence in the future, which was making us soft; it has given great help to science, and it has made us think of human beings as one family.

This made me a bit unhappy

We made a list of all the clothes we needed

This made me angry

We made it square

We made it round

Then we made it flat

I'm afraid I made a mistake

'I think you made this happen

That made Harris and I cry, and it made Montmorency howl.

'Well, I'm sorry but it's how the good God made me.' 'Mm

'Since every other girl she knows has ruined herself and made money out of it, why shouldn't she? Her friends don't earn any more than she does, but every day they wear new dresses, shoes, and so on, to work

The touch of her fingers or the sweet smell of her hair made my heart beat fast

I made a copy of the letter and sent it to Sir Percival's lawyer, asking for an explanation

I'm not surprised that it made you worry, but I can explain everything.'

This letter made me very angry

She showed then to me later, and that made me want to kill him.

Dr Goodricke registered the death, and my mistress made all the arrangements for the funeral

Mrs Michelson told me that Laura had gone to London, where she'd become ill and died! This terrible news made me ill again, and I was unable to leave that house for another three weeks

That made me laugh

Now she looked like the Laura I first met at Limmeridge: her expression was lively once more, she smiled frequently, and she had lost that sad nervous look that made her so very like Anne Catherick

in the future it is going to be made easier for women all over the world to win their fight when their time comes." Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928)

Women have made a lot of progress in the last 100 years

But our gender is made by our society As we grow, society teaches us how to act like women

In the USA in 2016, women earned about 82 cents for every dollar a man made.

Her work helped other scientists discover how DNA is made.

In the 20th century, women made some progress in this fight.

Later, Nancy's father made a lot of money in business, and the children were able to get an education

That was because she wore the short trousers her mother made her wear

But she did not just play tennis; she also made great progress for women's equality and for women's pay in sport

The history of women's empowerment is long, and a lot of progress has been made